Rick Newell
Chief Transformation Officer at Vituity
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Transformation Officer
2017 - Current
As Chief Transformation Officer, I am responsible for the development, implementation, and execution of strategies, programs, and technologies that enhance and transform enterprise-wide healthcare delivery. I oversee innovation, startup company investments and partnerships, outpatient & lifestyle medicine, telehealth, payer alignment strategies, consulting, tech partnerships, care coordination, and complex care management. Vituity is a nationwide, multispecialty partnership of top physicians, advanced providers, and industry professionals. Providing a wide range of acute integrated care, Vituity proactively leads positive change in the business and practices of healthcare. Vituity’s footprint continues to rapidly expand as it partners with and supports hospitals, health systems, clinics, payers, and employers.
Physician Partner
2007
Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board
2020
-Driving Strategic Growth and Innovation by identifying, investing in, and accelerating cutting-edge healthcare innovations that improve patient care and physician workflows. -Building High-Impact Partnerships by forging strategic alliances between health-tech startups, investors, and healthcare providers to bring transformative solutions to market. -Championing Physician-Led Innovation by ensuring that healthcare advancements align with real-world clinical needs by leveraging the expertise of physicians and business leaders in decision-making. Inflect Health is a nationwide, multispecialty healthcare innovation and investment hub. Owned and led by physicians and healthcare business leaders, we’re agile and robust, with global reach and a startup ethos. At our core, we’re driving seamless connections between health-tech innovators, the capital to bring their ideas to market, and the physicians and patients who rely on these game-changing breakthroughs to deliver high-quality, next-generation care.
Board Member
2023
-Guiding Strategic Vision and Growth by shaping Sayvant's direction on AI-driven innovations that enhance clinical documentation, decision-making, and operational efficiency in healthcare. -Ensuring AI-Driven Excellence through the integration of advanced generative AI to improve differential diagnosis, risk mitigation, and quality measure capture at the point of care. -Supporting Governance and Compliance with industry-leading security, compliance, and regulatory adherence to maintain Sayvant’s position as a trusted and transformative healthcare technology solution. Sayvant is an advanced AI-powered platform that revolutionizes medical record documentation by leveraging generative AI through a Large Language Model. Unlike traditional transcription services, Sayvant ambiently listens to patient-physician interactions and documents them in the way a physician naturally would—ensuring accuracy and efficiency in clinical workflows. While this level of ambient documentation has become table stakes in the industry, Sayvant goes far beyond by integrating deeper intelligence into the process. What truly sets Sayvant apart is its ability to generate a comprehensive differential diagnosis with complex medical decision making, capture relevant quality measures at the point of care, and identifying high-risk presentations to support risk mitigation. Additionally, Sayvant streamlines the billing process by optimizing charts. Built with the highest standards of security and compliance, Sayvant is HIPAA compliant, HITRUST, and SOC 2 certified—offering a seamless, intelligent, and secure solution that transforms the way healthcare professionals document and deliver care.
Chief Executive Officer
2023 - 2024
Board Member
2023
Rely Health is the national leader in care coordination and navigation. Their fabulous navigation platform leverages AI and creates the foundation for their compassionate health navigators to support patients and families through even the most complex healthcare journeys.
Rely Healthcare is a healthcare company that provides the infrastructure to design and deploy EHR-Integrated Care Navigation programs.
Chief Executive Officer & Board Member
2023 - 2024
A leader in Lifestyle and Movement Medicine that identifies, researches, leverages and embraces innovative technologies and services to pair them with targeted physician-backed health coaching. MOOV turns traditional healthcare upside down and makes a big promise: we will help you be your best and healthiest version of yourself, moving better, sleeping better, managing your weight better, feeling stronger and just feeling right at every stage of life.
Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board
2021 - 2023
Tech enabled care coordination/navigation startup to mitigate social and economic barriers to care by seamlessly guiding patients and families through the healthcare ecosystem to minimize waste, inefficiency, and patient frustration. Healthful’s proprietary patient navigation platform was among the first to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to help team members accurately determine the needs and resources for the patients who will benefit most from care navigation. Led Healthful from ideation, to startup creation, through rapid growth cycle, to merger to become Rely Health.
Member of the Board of Trustees
2014 - 2020
Director of Quality & Performance
2015 - 2017
Board Member
2013 - 2017
CMS Program Director
2008 - 2016
Medical Director - Emergency Department
2010 - 2014
Assistant Medical Director
2008 - 2009
Administrative Fellow
2007 - 2008
Emergency Medicine Resident
2004 - 2007
Harbor - UCLA Medical Center
UCLA Health is a health system providing healthcare and medical technology services.
Raised $25,300,000.00 from Department of Health Care Services.
Teaching Fellow
2003 - 2003
Healthcare Management Intern
2002 - 2003